Bridge over troubled minds: Psychology and Catholicism

I found a link to an interesting article:

The Lost Sense of Sin in Psychology (Part 1)

Briefly, it talks about how sin has lost its concept in contemporary society…how Psychology has contributed to this loss of meaning…and why it is important, and healing, to integrate the notion of sin into therapy and psychological research.

I don’t generally emphasize sin, simply because I think that it is a given that we will never be perfect as long as we haven’t reached the next life, and that we do our best, knowing that Jesus has saved us because we believe in Him. However, we have to acknowledge what sin is so that we understand what we are saved from! If psychological theories explain away all guilt, it does two wrongs to the human person, in my opinion:

1. It removes the fact that we need God to live and to be saved. It takes away the opportunity of knowing God’s Love and receiving His Forgiveness, the only thing that brings us beyond happiness.

2. It ignores a whole dimension of who we are. Indeed, we are mind, body and soul; and repentance is surely a faculty of the soul crying out to God, even if the mind and body go another way.

If I find the link to Part 2, I will post it as well.